Monday, January 30, 2012

The Numbers May Shock You...

The purpose of these numbers is not to belittle any of the atrocities listed below, for the death of any innocent person is a tragedy. Instead, the numbers are given to help give perspective on size and scope.

12 comments:

Lord have mercy indeed. I've heard the numbers before but seeing it laid out like this makes the impact that much greater. Thanks for sharing this. I'll have to link back here once I update my blog again.

Thank you so much for sharing this! It truly puts into perspective the horror we have all come to accept as routine and perfectly acceptable. We kill based on a person's address. If it is outside the womb, you are safe. If it is inside the womb, you are fair game. Ei mihi! Domine, misere nobis!

kkollwitz,Yes, that's right, the 2.4 million number does not include abortion. And yes, when you remember that there are about 1.2 million abortions a year, it's astounding that if abortions were added, the number of death per year would go up by 50%. Fully 1/3 of all deaths in this country are from abortion. Astounding.

Have you addressed the myth of overpopulation? I shared this post on facebook and that seemed to be the consensus of frieds who commented.... "better not to have 100mil+ people on earth given all the problems"

The list of deaths is valuable. However there are at least two omissions.

One - The Holodomor, a man-made famine deliberately caused by the Soviets in the Ukrainian SSR between 1932 and 1933 killed between 2.4 and 7.5 million.

Two - About 1.5 million Irish were starved to death in the period 1846-1851. During these years Ireland produced enough food, flax and wool not only to feed and clothe its nine million people, but enough for eighteen million. The deaths from starvation were not caused by a shortage of food but by the British government’s choice not to close the ports, which were exporting food, as had been done in previous Irish crop blights.Though lists like this often ignore it there was an Irish Genocide which went on for centuries in which the British killed uncounted millions of the Irish.Incidentally, most of the slaves brought to the new world by Britain in the 17th century were Irish.